When Professor Clare Malley, a medievalistteaching at a Catholic university in New York City, is asked to discover why sixteen-year-old Jonas Crosswell did not die in a drug-related shoot-out at a neighborhood church, the last thing she expects is a modern-day miracle. But how else to explain how the boy survived multiple gunshot wounds? Was it a miracle performed by the mysterious Father Enoch? Ordid St. Lazarus himselfintervene? And what does Jonas's experience have to do with Sean, the troubled heir to a pharmaceutical fortune who vanished after he was alsosupposedlymiraculously cured? When Clare tries to discover whether there is a connection between Jonas and Sean, she uncovers an all-too-real,unholy conspiracy to use neighborhood drug dealers as unknowing guinea pigs. Sean may be the only one who can answer her questionsand the only one who can truly touch her heart.